Protea heckmanniana Engl.
var. heckmanniana

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Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Protea salicifolia Mildbr. Protea stolzii Mildbr. ex Peter
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Status:	Native
Description:	Suffrutex with several unbranched, more or less densely hairy stems less than 50 cm high. Leaves narrowly oblong-elliptic, mostly 4-7 cm long, 3-6 times as long as wide, more or less densely hairy. Flowerheads 3-4.5 cm in diameter. Bracts up to 2.5 cm long, about equalling the flowers, brown, appressed hairy in patches but becoming more and more hairless. Flowers 1.5-2 cm long, pink or sometimes white, hairy outside.
Notes:	Subsp. angustifolia (Hauman) Chisumpa & Brummitt is confined to Southern Tanzania.
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Habitat:	Montane grassland.
Altitude range:	1830 - 2400 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Only known from southern Tanzania and the Nyika plateau in Malawi and Zambia.
Malawi distribution:	N
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Endemic status:	Near Endemic
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Content last updated:	Friday 3 May 2019
Literature:	Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 76 - 77. (Includes a picture). Beard, J.S. (1963). The genus Protea in Tropical Africa Kirkia 3 Pages 169 - 170. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 230. as Protea heckmanniana heckmanniana (Includes a picture). Chisumpa, S.M., Brummitt, R.K. & Marner, S. (2006). Proteaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 81 - 82. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 85.

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